Acting quotes

“I can't sleep. I need Nana's cookies. I'm gonna turn a personal addiction into a positive cinematic moment.”

Olivia DeJonge - Becca

“I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing.”
Tom McCarthy

“I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.”
Stephen Lang

“In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.”
Béla Lugosi

“To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.”
Béla Lugosi

“Like... we see a picture of this young lady. But to the lady, are we just a picture of us? Did you ever think about that?”

Will Ferrell - Steve Butabi

“- Tony Stark: You're different.
- Peter Parker: Yeah, but I can't tell anybody that, so I'm not.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark
Tom Holland - Peter Parker

“If I can be Brutus for 90 minutes tonight, I mean really be him, from the inside out, then for 90 minutes I get this miraculous reprieve from being myself. That's what you see in every great actor's eyes.”

Christian McKay - Orson Welles

“Your performances were, on the whole, promising, which is more than can be said, alas, for that of the sliding doors. One of which might have thought it was in Japan, but the other was apparently stubbornly laboring under the misapprehension that it was on holiday in Yorkshire.”

Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert

“I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.”
Jared Harris

“We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there's nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a life.”
Ed Harris - Christof

“- Agnes: I don't think I should do this.
- Gru: Well, what do you mean? Why not?
- Agnes: I don't even have a mom.
- Gru: Well, you don't need one to do the show. I mean, you did the Veteran's Day pageant and you haven't been in combat.”

Elsie Fisher - Agnes
Steve Carrell - Gru

“I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.”
Kenneth Williams

- Drama Teacher: What are you going to do?
- Sheila: I'm doing "The Towering Inferno".
- Drama Teacher: What?
- Sheila: You know, the movie.

“- Celeste Talbert: I never said I was the best mother in the world. Give me a little credit, will you? Credit for being someone who tried to love you the only way she knew how.
- Lori Craven: I know that speech.
- Celeste Talbert: You do?
- Lori Craven: Yeah, it was the Thanksgiving show, when Maggie meets Bolt's blind nephew.”
Sally Field - Celeste Talbert
Elisabeth Shue - Lori Craven

“When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.”
Bo Derek

“I think of my relationship with any audience as a love affair. It lasts only a little while but I always look forward to a happy ending. For both of us.”
Dick Shawn

“- Karen Flores: I think you could be an actor.
- Chili Palmer: Well, I could see myself in the parts that Robert De Niro plays. Or maybe even, an Al Pacino movie, you know, playing a real hard-on. But I couldn't see myself in those movies where three grown-up guys get left with a baby, and so they act like three grown-up assholes, acting all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rene Russo - Karen Flores
John Travolta - Chili Palmer

“- Sean: Give me your ride punk or I will dust your ass!
- PJ: Nope, not convincing, find your core charachter sean, you are an oppressed black man, Think Tupac! Try it again.
- Sean: Give me your ride punk or I will dust your ass!
- PJ: And a biotch and I think we got it!”
Taye Diggs - Sean James
Anthony Anderson - PJ

“I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.”
Mary Tyler Moore

“If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors. ”
Sonny Chiba

“So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.”
Michael Curtiz

“Strange that over the course of my career I have played perhaps more doctors than any other profession while having very little first hand experience with them”
Erick Avari

“I never write for money. I only act for money.”
Robert Shaw

“What I try to achieve in acting - flamboyance - would be self-indulgence if I tried it as a writer.”
Robert Shaw